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Author : Kathleen Thompson Norris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Callahans and the Murphys written by Kathleen Thompson Norris and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Thompson Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Callahans and the Murphys written by Kathleen Thompson Norris and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis G. Couvares
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495753
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Movie Censorship and American Culture written by Francis G. Couvares and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of public outrage over "indecent" nickelodeon shows, Americans have worried about the power of the movies. The eleven essays in this book examine nearly a century of struggle over cinematic representations of sex, crime, violence, religion, race, and ethnicity, revealing that the effort to regulate the screen has reflected deep social and cultural schisms. In addition to the editor, contributors include Daniel Czitrom, Marybeth Hamilton, Garth Jowett, Charles Lyons, Richard Maltby, Charles Musser, Alison M. Parker, Charlene Regester, Ruth Vasey, and Stephen Vaughn. Together they make it clear that censoring the movies is more than just a reflex against "indecency," however defined. Whether censorship protects the vulnerable or suppresses the creative, it is part of a broader culture war that breaks out recurrently as Americans try to come to terms with the market, the state, and the plural society in which they live.
Author : Matthew Kennedy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786428449
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Marie Dressler written by Matthew Kennedy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the century, Marie Dressler was hailed as one of America's finest comics, with a 20-year string of Broadway and vaudeville successes including The Lady Slavey, Miss Prinnt, Higgledy Piggledy, The Man in the Moon, and Tillie's Nightmare. She starred with Charlie Chaplin in the first ever feature-length comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance and later in Min and Bill for which she won an Academy Award. A brilliant comedienne in body, timing, inflection and reactions, her talents far exceeded the expectations of slapstick, and her movies earned sums far greater than those of Garbo, or Harlow, or even Gable. This work examines Dressler's life from vaudeville to talkies. Based on extensive research and interviews with Dressler's surviving friends, co-stars and colleagues, including Maureen O'Sullivan, Jackie Cooper and Anita Page, it details her public and personal successes and failures. A listing of her stage appearances, vocal recordings and films is included.
Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415938538
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Vaudeville old & new written by Frank Cullen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cari Beauchamp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520921380
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Without Lying Down written by Cari Beauchamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter—male or female—or almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."
Author : Matthew Bernstein
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780485300925
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Controlling Hollywood written by Matthew Bernstein and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the major forces at play behind the making of Hollywood films, this text assesses how changing values have influenced censorship in Hollywood. The text also analyses the major cultural, social, legal and religious changes and their effect on Hollywood.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book National Catholic Welfare Council Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Alison Kibler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618370
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Censoring Racial Ridicule written by M. Alison Kibler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative study, M. Alison Kibler uncovers, for the first time, powerful and concurrent campaigns by Irish, Jewish and African Americans against racial ridicule in popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Censoring Racial Ridicule explores how Irish, Jewish, and African American groups of the era resisted harmful representations in popular culture by lobbying behind the scenes, boycotting particular acts, and staging theater riots. Kibler demonstrates that these groups' tactics evolved and diverged over time, with some continuing to pursue street protest while others sought redress through new censorship laws. Exploring the relationship between free expression, democracy, and equality in America, Kibler shows that the Irish, Jewish, and African American campaigns against racial ridicule are at the roots of contemporary debates over hate speech.
Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195306569
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Catholics in the Movies written by Colleen McDannell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common admission that "everything I know about religion I learned from the movies" is true for believers as much as for unbelievers. And at the movies, Catholicism is the American religion. As an intensely visual faith with a well-defined ritual and authority structure, Catholicism lends itself to the drama and pageantry of film. Beginning with the silent era of film and ending with movies today, eleven prominent scholars explore how Catholic characters, spaces, and rituals are represented in cinema.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Motion Picture Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Sturtevant
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092627
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Great Big Girl Like Me written by Victoria Sturtevant and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Literary Digest International Book Review written by Clifford Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Alan Carr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521798549
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Hollywood and Anti-Semitism written by Steven Alan Carr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry.
Author : Betty Lee
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145724
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Marie Dressler written by Betty Lee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of the Great Depression, she was Everywoman, and in the early 1930s her charming mixture of pathos and comedy packed movie theaters everywhere. In the early days of the century, Dressler was constantly in the headlines. She took up the cause of the "ponies" in the chorus lines, earning them better pay and benefits. She played in productions organized to raise money for the women's suffrage movement. And during World War I she claimed she sold more liberty bonds than any other individual in the United States. Dressler was an astute observer of public mood and taste. When she was lucky enough to find work in the newly minted Hollywood talkies, she grabbed the brass ring with fierce enthusiasm, even making three films in the year before her death, when she was so sick she had to rest between scenes on a sofa just out of camera range. The two-hundred-pound actress's remarkable stage presence captivated audiences even though her roles were not Hollywood beauties. She played tough, practical characters such as the old wharf rat in Anna Christie (1930), the waterfront innkeeper in Min and Bill (1931) -- for which she won the Academy Award for best actress -- the aging housekeeper in Emma (1932), and the title role in Tugboat Annie (1933). She spoke honestly to her audiences, and troubled people in the comforting darkness of the Depression-era movie theaters embraced her as one of themselves.
Author : Charles Lyons
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566395120
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The New Censors written by Charles Lyons and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid ongoing debates over a wide variety of art and how it should be regulated, Charles Lyons focuses on the movie industry and the role pressure groups and government has played in shaping contemporary images
